Berkeley House (Summit Homes) is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1971. House, offices. 3 related planning applications.
Berkeley House (Summit Homes)
- WRENN ID
- hushed-keystone-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1971
- Type
- House, offices
- Address
- Berkeley House (Summit Homes), Barnet Road, London Colney
- OS grid reference
- TL 184 036
- Coordinates
- 51.71887, -0.28729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Berkeley House, now known as Summit Homes, is a house that dates back to around 1760 and has been converted into offices. The building features a stucco exterior that was applied in the 19th century and has a machine tile roof with a double pile design. It stands two storeys tall, with a front range that has a parapet on both the facade and gable ends, and internal end stacks.
The facade includes five small sash windows that are widely spaced, lacking glazing bars, and set in flush wood frames. A notable feature is the central Doric door surround, which includes single three-quarter columns topped with entablature blocks and an open pediment hood. The cornice soffit is adorned with heavy enriched mutules and a triglyph frieze. The recessed door has four fielded panels and two flush panels. The interior of the building has undergone significant alterations.
Local climate
Berkeley House (Summit Homes) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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